Summer Festivals
Presentations by members.
Presentations by members.
Highlighting the visit of the Hungarian State Opera and National Ballet.
talk by Saul Lilienstein
Michael Sherwin: “Leonard Bernstein at 100: A Master Wagnerian.”
Talk with Paul de Quenoy
Jennifer B. Lee, curator: Unique Materials in the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library (exhibit and talk), followed by lunch.
presentation by Jeffrey Swann
Jennifer B. Lee, curator: Unique Materials in the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library (exhibit and talk), followed by lunch.
Bayreuth Festival Highlights: German Bravo-Casas on Siegfried Wagner’s life and career; John Muller on the new production of Tannhäuser ; Scott Carlton on the anniversary of Wolfgang Wagner’s birth and his years as Director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Saul Lilienstein: “Wagner and Brahms: The War of the Romantics.”
Prof. Harlow Robinson. "The Russian Parsifal?: Rimsky-Korsakov and the Invisible City of Kitezh."
Maestro Eve Queler and Rienzi. With solos by Jeremy Brauner and Mary Ann Stewart.